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BANAT’S  SAINTS

A list of the Saints and Angels is available at Catholic Online. Unfortunate, the two Saints directly related with Banat [and/or their connection] are not mentioned at all.

   SAINT JOANNIS NEPOMUC [Joannes Nepomuk; St. John Nepomucene in English] 

There are some interesting info to be found on him:
“Feastday: May 16
In his early childhood, John Nepomucene was cured of a disease through the prayers of his good parents. In thanksgiving, they consecrated him to the service of God.
After he was ordained, he was sent to a parish in the city of Prague. He became a great preacher, and thousands of those who listened to him changed their way of life.
Father John was invited to the court of Wenceslaus IV. He settled arguments and did many kind deeds for the needy people of the city. He also became the queen's confessor. When the king was cruel to the queen, Father John taught her to bear her cross patiently.
One day, about 1393, the king asked him to tell what the queen had said in confession. When Father John refused, he was thrown into prison.
A second time, he was asked to reveal the queen's confession. "If you do not tell me," said the king, "you shall die. But if you obey my commands, riches and honor will be yours." Again Father John refused. He was tortured. The king ordered to be thrown into the river. Where he drowned, a strange brightness appeared upon the water. He is known as the "martyr of the confessional."
He is patron of Czechoslovakia, where he is invoked against floods and against slander”.
Saint Joannes Nepomuk's connection with Banat is not mentioned on this web Site; in 1727, Saint Joannis Nepomuc was chosen to be the protector of the Banat region and May 16 was declared national holiday in Banat.

   SAINT GERHARDUS [Gerard or Gerardi-in english /Gellert-in hungarian /Gerhard-in german /Gerardo-in italian]

No info available on him at Saint and Angels, Catholic Online Web Site

Feastday: September 24
Born probably¹ in 993 at Venice in the noble Sagredo family.
Founder of Cenad Bishopric and his first bishop [1038], philosopher and teacher. Before the middle of the 11th Century, he raised in Cenad/Morisena the first certified school on today's Romania's territory. He was also a scholar, and wrote an unfinished dissertation on the "Hymn of the Three Young Men" (Daniel iii), as well as other works [unfortunately, some of them are lost].

Died as martyr on 24 September 1046 -during the Hungarian pagan revolt- at a crossing place on the Danube River, in central Hungary, which is commonly named Pest. He forecasted to his companions' -when celebrating Mass at a little place on the Danube called Giod/Dyod he had a prevision - the time and the manner of his violent death. The Vata's pagans stoned him and almost all his companions. Bishop St. Gerard showed the sign of the cross constantly to those who stoned him, which angered them even more. They overthrew the cart of the bishop, put him on a trundle and hurled him down the cliffs of Kelenföld. Since he was still breathing, the pagans thrust a spear through his chest and dashed his brain on a stone. Many times the Danube River overflew its banks and covered the stone on which St. Gerard head was crushed; but not even in seven years could its waters wash the blood off. His first burial place was Giod/Dyod from were, in 1053, was moved to Cenad by the Bishop Maurus and abbot Filip. Starting 1083, he was moved to Budapest, on the Szent Gellert hillock. 
His beatification: in 1068 -under the Pope Alexander II- took place the canonization and in 1083 he was confirmed by Pope Gregorium VII.

In 1333 the Republic of Venice obtained the greater part of his relics from the king of Hungary, and with great solemnity translated them to the church of our Lady of Murano, wherein St. Gerard was venerated as the martyr of Venice, the place of his birth. 

The remaining relic bones of St. Gerard have arrived in Budapest on  25.01.2002. The remains of the 11th-century martyr were sent as a gift from the San Donato Basilica in Murano/Italy.

NOTE:

  [1] the year of his B is not know for sure; this event could occur between 980-998. His connection with the Sagredo family is disputable; this family is known in Venice only starting XIII Century and in the XI-XII Century the custom of using family names did not existed yet.